2025 World Championships
- July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming)
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The women’s 200m freestyle final was among day four’s events at the 2025 World Championships with Aussie Mollie O’Callaghan reaping gold in a time of 1:53.48.
Behind her was Chinese ace Li Bingjie, with the 23-year-old Olympian snagging silver in 1:54.52 ahead of American Claire Weinstein who secured bronze in 1:54.67.
For Li, her performance tonight was a redemption of sorts from finishing 4th and off the podium in the women’s 1500m free last night in Singapore.
In that grueling distance race, Li registered a time of 15:49.54 to finish just off the podium.
Winning the 1500m free event was American Olympic icon Katie Ledecky who struck gold in 15:26.44, followed by Italy’s Simona Quadarella (15:31.79) and Australia’s Lani Pallister (15:41.18).
Li’s time of 1:54.52 in tonight’s 200m free checks in as a monster new personal best, easily overtaking the 1:55.52 notched at the Chinese Nationals this past March. That hacked a second off her previous PB en route to giving China another piece of hardware.
Li’s performance bodes well for the Chinese women’s 4x200m free relay, which begins tomorrow.
China earned bronze in that event last year at the 2024 Olympic Games. Li was indeed a member of that relay, producing a 2nd leg split of 1:55.05.
Now that she’s entered sub-1:55 territory on the individual level, it may mean that China may do more damage than originally thought in the relay. We’ll have to see what transpires during the heats.
WOMEN’S 200 FREESTYLE – FINAL
- World Record: 1:52.23 – Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 2024
- World Junior Record: 1:53.65 – Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2023
- Championship Record: Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) – 1:52.85
- 2023 World Champion: Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) – 1:52.85
- 2024 Olympic Champion: Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) – 1:53.27
- Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 1:53.48
- Li Bingjie (CHN), 1:54.52
- Claire Weinstein (USA), 1:54.67
- Freya Colbert (GBR), 1:55.06
- Barbora Seemanova (CZE), 1:55.20
- Erika Fairweather (NZL), 1:55.61
- Jamie Perkins (AUS), 1:56.55
- Erin Gemmell (USA), 2:00.16
Asian National/Continental Records
- Li Bingjie, Women’s 400m freestyle (3:58.21) – Chinese & Asian Records
- Ching Hwee Gan, Women’s 400m freestyle (4:09.82) – Singapore Record; Women’s 800m freestyle (8:29.93) – Singapore Record; Women’s 1500m free (16:01.29) – Singapore Record
- Denis Petrashov, Men’s 100m breaststroke (58.88) – Kyrgyzstani Record
- Samiul Islam Rafi, Men’s 100m backstroke (58.36) – Bangladeshi Record
- Enkhatmir Batbayar, Men’s 200m freestyle (1:50.26) – Mongolian Record; Men’s 100m backstroke (57.25) – Mongolian Record
- Chen Juner, Men’s 200m butterfly (1:54.02) – Chinese Record
Asian Medal Table Through Day Four of 2025 World Championships
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Krgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Overall Swimming Medal Table Through Day Three of 2025 World Championships
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 |
Australia
|
4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | U.S. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Canada | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Italy | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | China | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | NAB | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | France | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Tunisia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Beautiful
“China earned silver in that event last year at the 2024 Olympic Games”
think this needs to be corrected😁
Ledecky:
Are you kidding me?
Has 100-1500 range and 6 individual world silver medals. Definitely underrated imo, even if she’s a bit inconsistent from year to year.